During a high-level discussion of NASA’s goals for human space exploration, we got an early look at what a 30-day crewed mission to Mars’ surface could eventually look like. It’s an exciting prospect that, while many years, if not decades, … Read More
Interstellar travel may not be lightyears away. Breakthrough Starshot, an international research project, recently provided an update on its plans to send a probe to Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighboring star system. Before that, it will have to develop and … Read More
Stephen Hawking, a world-famous physicist, submitted a research paper just two weeks before his death that suggests parallel Universes and predicts the end of this one. Hawking and his co-author Thomas Hertog published their findings in “A Smooth Exit from … Read More
New research shows that our Moon once had an atmosphere 3 to 4 billion years ago. It formed when volcanic eruptions rocked the ancient satellite, propelling gases above its surface too rapidly for them to seep into space. The surface of … Read More
An experiment that could confirm the universe’s fifth state of matter — and change physics as we know it — has been published in a new research paper from the University of Portsmouth in England. Dr. Melvin Vopson, a physicist, … Read More
We all know that Earth is old, but it’s hard to put into perspective just how old it is. After all, what does 4.5 billion years really mean? How do you even comprehend that amount of time with our short-lived human brains? … Read More